Pink Pepper Thai Restaurant

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score91 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedApril 22, 2026
• address1638 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles 90028

Is Pink Pepper Thai Restaurant clean?

Pink Pepper Thai Restaurant is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on April 22, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Pink Pepper Thai Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE
  DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE
• ⚠️HANDS CLEAN AND PROPERLY WASHED; PROPER GLOVE USE
  HANDS CLEAN AND PROPERLY WASHED; PROPER GLOVE USE
• ⚠️THERMOMETERS PROVIDED AND ACCURATE
  THERMOMETERS PROVIDED AND ACCURATE
• ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcritical
  FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED

When was Pink Pepper Thai Restaurant last inspected?

Pink Pepper Thai Restaurant has 3 inspections on record going back to January 26, 2024, averaging 93 points.

Pink Pepper Thai Restaurant vs Melrose

Melrose runs 98% clean across 653 tracked restaurants — 637 clean, 13 mid, 3 cooked.

Against the 653 spots Cooked tracks in Melrose, this one comes out cleaner than 8% of them.

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How Los Angeles grades restaurants

Los Angeles County posts a letter placard in the window, and unlike New York the score runs the friendly way: higher is better. 90 to 100 points earns an A, 80 to 89 a B, and anything below that a C. The county inspects roughly every six months to a year depending on risk, and a failed inspection can close a kitchen until it is fixed. Because LA’s scores are final at the time of inspection — there is no pending window — a letter can be read straight off the score when the placard field is blank.

Source: LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health via LA County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated April 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.